Global Citizen Honors Program

Priority Registration

All GCHP students can register for classes as soon as registration opens, helping to ensure access to high-demand courses.

Honors-Only Courses

GCHP offers two types of courses that are open only to program members:

• Honors sections designed specifically with GCHP students in mind and Honors Explorations, three-credit hour interdisciplinary courses.
• Enhanced regularly-offered courses. Completing an Honors option in a regularly-scheduled course gives students the opportunity to work one-on-one with college faculty on projects that extend and enhance courses they would take as part of their liberal arts core or major-minor requirements.

Global Learning Opportunities

Global learning opportunities, both international and domestic, allow students to pursue diverse and innovative educational experiences. Getting the chance to travel the world to expand your education while also exploring cultures provides incomparable and often life-changing experiences that round out a fantastic The University of Olivet experience. Recent international study trips include Antigua, Australia, Cuba, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, London, Mexico, Paris, Spain and more.

Program Events

GCHP hosts a variety of events for its students, including dinners and field trips to local destinations and to larger cultural centers.

Two Membership Levels

GCHP Scholars are individuals who are committed to completing 24 honors credits, including the Honors thesis, and intend to graduate from the Honors Program. However, the Honors Program faculty recognize that our students’ lives are complex, so we offer students the ability to “step back” to the Associate level of participation as early as the first semester of study.

Control Your Own Learning

GCHP is designed to place students in the driver’s seat — they decide whether they are ready to commit to remaining GCHP Scholars or whether they would prefer a less rigorous but still engaged experience at the Associate level. Students decide whether to pursue and complete Honors options and whether to take Honors sections or Honors seminars.

Graduation Honors

GCHP Scholars who have completed all program requirements wear a special stole at Commencement indicating their status as a graduate of the Global Citizen Honors Program. Students who complete the Honors Program also receive special insignia on their diploma indicating that they are a graduate of the Honors Program.